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Galatea by Madeline Miller is a short story that you will regret finishing. Based on the Greek myth of Galatea and Pygmalion, this retelling is shared from the perspective of Galatea, a marble statue crafted by Pygmalion that is so perfect, he prays to the goddess Aphrodite to bring it to life. In this modern retelling, Galatea, (whose identity we don’t discover until she unveils her story) is a patient in a psychiatric ward, where her husband, insanely jealous and very rich after her “birth,” has kept her trapped after her attempts to escape with their daughter, Paphos. She describes her long, dreary days and recalls how she had come to life, had Paphos and handled her husband and his chronic jealousy that led him to confining them to his home. Within the events of the story she begins to cleverly plot her escape and revenge from her husband. You can grab a copy of this short novella in print from Diwan.

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